Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent announcement of a four million dollar building planned in New York to serve as a clearing house of American art, bids fair to forecast a new era in the development of painting in this country. The object of the League of American Artists who are sponsoring the proposed building is particularly interesting,--to institute a "business organization for the exclusive purpose of establishing a great public market place where the work of American artists may be sold." Studies and galleries will be provided to be let to individuals or groups to make the building self-supporting...
Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, upwards of four hundred students were in the vicinity of Sever 11, all with the same object in mind, that of attending the first meeting of Comp, List. 12. Even when all Sophomores and Freshmen had filtered out upon request, over three hundred men remained...
...American college education may be found. The danger of overcrowding, the tendency to "swamp" all of our great universities, which President Nielsen of Smith points out as one of the most alarming characteristics of education today, might be obviated by adopting this proposed Candian plan with a diametrically opposite object. The small colleges formed about the central university base would give the small-group, dormitory life which Stephen Leacock spoke of as the first prerequisite of a successful university, and for higher education there would still be the vast resources of the large plant. An an experiment, whether copied elsewhere...
...word has another meaning--a spiritual as distinguished from a worldly significance. Almost all men, and all men of character, believe that there is an intrinsic reason for moral conduct, apart from its material value to the man himself; that self-sacrifice for a worthy object is neither an irrational folly, nor a mere survival of a primitive herd instinct, but the noblest act of the most highly developed creature on the earth. The memory of the young men who died in the war is too fresh in our minds to let us think for a moment that their heroic...
...clock all the four Crimson shells lined up for a race downstream, the Freshman and combination eights to go only two miles. The object of the race was to settle clearly the relation between the two University eights, and the decisiveness of the result was thus not unsatisfactory to the coaches. No changes are contemplated, however, until after thorough consultation and possibly further trials. In the opinion of the coaches both University crews could have done better at a higher stroke...